Casey Newton

You worked as a customer support agent at a mattress company.

So I just want to know, before we get into that, what was your motivation for doing this experiment?

It's going great.

This is what peak male performance looks like.

So on the flip side, was there anything that you found surprisingly useful?

I mean, obviously it's better at writing business memos and editing, but was there anything that really caught you by surprise where you're like, oh, this is farther ahead than I thought?

There's a funny scene in the book where you're, like, going into a meeting with your B bracelet on, which I imagine is recording and transcribing, like, everything you hear.

And your boss or someone you worked with at the time was like, can you take that off?

You're like, I can expense this dental care now.

It's a book expense.

And I'm like, oh, my teeth are dirty.

Yeah, you're just like... Like, what kind of person do you think you're talking to?

We're not clear on that either.

Is this recording everything we say at all times?

I want to ask you about the geographic divide when it comes to AI.

So you live here in the New York area.

We're out in San Francisco.

Out by us, it's like very common to run into people who are obsessed with AI.

Everyone's constantly talking about it.

It's the subject of every conversation.